Guild Wars 2

First off, I want to thank Arena Net for creating this wonderful armor and I think it goes very well with the Ley Line Weapons.

I find my self a bit frustrated with the acquisition of this armor, especially the Leystone Headgear Box, Leystone Shoulder Box, Leystone Glove Box, Leystone Legging Box, and the Leystone Boot Box, as the only way to get them is through Noxious Pods (DS), Hearts and Minds Story Mission, or as a meta-event reward from the blighting towers in dragons stand(DS), which uses a RNG (Random Number Generator) which has a 10% chance to drop a random box, whereas the Noxious Pods RNG have a 5% chance to receive a random box. I have personally done both the blighting tower meta 100 times and have only gotten 2 of the above mentioned boxes, however the mouth of Mordremoth meta has a rather decent RNG of 20% drop rate of Leystone Coat Box, which I think is perfect, also the coat can be gotten from the Mouth of Mordremoth Slayer achievement. The coat box I have no problem with, and this should not change.
(I also know alts can get the armor boxes from hearts and minds and I have done this with 6 of my alts, but I’m still missing a significant amount of armor pieces)

I do however believe that the acquisition of the other 5 armor boxes should be easier.
I really don’t want to run blighting towers 1000 times to get all of the boxes.

Here are my three ways of fixing this personally troubling issue.

1. Raise the chance in the RNG for Noxious Pods/ Blighting Towers meta from 5% to 20-33%, or 10% to 20-33%

or

2. Allow the crystalline ore vendor to sell these armor boxes for the appropriate amount of crystalline ore.

or

3. Allow a vendor to trade a unneeded specific armor box, for a armor box where the user can pick which piece of armor he/she wants.

I really hope a Anet employee reads this and is able to do something to address the issue, because again I really don’t want to spend a overwhelming amount of time to get these armor pieces, as there is so much more exciting and non-grinding things to do in the game already.

GW2 Players, please post comments as to what you think should happen! (Please do not post if you have not experienced this GW2 content yet, as this pertains more to players who acquired or are trying to acquire these items)

UPDATE
apparently the wiki lied, Blighting Towers only gives the leggings box, I’ve done over 150 times now, dropped leggings 3 times and nothing else. This means only noxious pods in dragons stand drop a random piece…

Leystone armor pieces is really hard to get ahold of. Never had any drop from noxious pods nor blighting towers.
And it makes me so sad to salvage tons upon tons of useless coat boxes.

I was able to get a little over half via pods/tower events, but after a little while all I got were repeats. I ended up completing the story on quite a few characters to get the rest (using tomes to make more 80’s just for this…). Only plus side to that was getting a lot of Chak and Auric weapon skins unlocked as well.

Yea, I really don’t want to roll 4 more characters on top of the 7 I already have to complete this

which would include getting them all through this entire story (which would take a while)

At least you can use the alts for achievements unless you already finished all those as well.

I did use all my alts, its quite sad lol